Development Tour Weekend

Mike De Dekker and Ted Evetts won the first of the weekends Development Tours on Saturday, on Sunday RJ Rodriguez took the first honours which confirmed Luke Humphries as the DTOoM Champion, as Humphries also takes the last event.

Tuesday 31 Oct 2017

Article by &dash; PDPA

LUKE HUMPHRIES secured victory on the 2017 PDC Unicorn Development Tour Order of Merit with his fifth tournament win of the year on Sunday, as Rowby-John Rodriguez also claimed a £2,000 title in Wigan.

Humphries, a 22-year-old from Newbury, will make his William Hill World Darts Championship debut in December before progressing to compete on the PDC ProTour in 2018 following his brilliant success on this year’s Development Tour.

Having won a quarter of the year’s 20 Development Tour events, Humphries claimed £13,400 in prize money during the season, which included £3,000 on Sunday’s final day of action in Wigan.

Humphries was firstly the Event 19 runner-up to Austrian thrower Rodrigue, before going all the way to win Event 20, where he saw off Jake Jones in the final.